SEX TOURISM

Mumbai.

In the 19th century, there are reports of sex tourism.

American women liked to visit North American Indians and European women liked to visit Turkey 'to enjoy sex far from home'. (Womens Sex Tourism)

Imagine a pretty fishing village on the coast of some tropical land.

Rich guys buy up the beachfront for a very low price and build hotels.

Drug peddling and prostitution arrive.

Some of the prostitutes will be children as young as 7.

The prostitution of boys is said to be the fastest growing trade in the sex industry. ('Sun-Surf-Sex Tourism' in Samar Magazine)

Some young males service older women.

Some middle aged male child abusers set up orphanages for boys.

Mumbai

Ruan is 7 years old and has been used in pornographic films, made by a group of German 'tourists'. ('Sun-Surf-Sex Tourism' in Samar Magazine)

7 year-old Menaka is a prostitute.

She has "no smile on her face, and her wide eyes register only fear." ('Sun-Surf-Sex Tourism' in Samar Magazine)

The favourite destinations for women seeking sex tourism include Israel and Jamaica. (Female sex tourism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

One Asian country is reported to have 1.2 million child prostitutes.

Many Arabs like to travel to India for child sex. (Fly-by-night bridegrooms / One minor girl, many Arabs)

"Often bearded, invariably in flowing robes and expensive turbans...

"The Arabs usually 'marry' the girls for short periods, sometimes just a single night."


What about other parts of the world?

"In a sleazy hotel room, 'Brittany,' then aged 16 and drugged into oblivion, waited for the men to arrive.

"Her pimps send as many as 17 clients an evening through the door.

This took place in Atlanta, in the U.S. Bible Belt.

"Men fly in, are met by pimps, have sex with a 14-year-old for lunch, and get home in time for dinner with the family," said Sanford Jones, the chief juvenile judge of Fulton County, Georgia.

Child sexual exploitation is believed to be the world's third-biggest money maker for organized crime.

http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=N03210934


Sex tourist destinations are not safe.

48 year old tourist Peter A was found dead in his hotel room in Soi Pattayaland 3, in Pattaya. The deceased's room had been ransacked and there was blood all over the bathroom, according to the Pattaya Mail.

40 year old tourist Erich B fell from his Pattaya hotel room to his death. Earlier, a local Thai had been seen coming out of his room, according to the Pattaya Mail.

43 year old Oleg C was found dead in his Pattaya hotel room. He had been beaten.

A tourist in his 50's was found dead in a locked room...

"Within a two month period, there have been 7 foreigner deaths (in Pattaya)" reported the Pattaya Mail in a recent edition.

42 year old Peter D was assaulted by a gang of knife wielding thugs and had to receive 70 stitches. The attack took place at a bar on Soi 2, in Pattaya.

35 year old Brian E lost most of his valuables when his South Pattaya hotel room was burgled....

The Pattaya Mail had a report about money being extracted from tourists, by the police.

"There are police behind the scenes helping the foreign mafia do their dirty work," reported the Pattaya Mail.

Female tourists are not necessarily totally safe in Thailand.

23 year-old Johanne M from Cheshire was raped and murdered by a Thai monk. Her body was found south-west of Bangkok.

24-year old Kirsty J was raped and killed in a guesthouse in Chiang Mai.

On the island of Phuket a 22 year old student from Lanarkshire was brutally raped.